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    Thread: Question about sentence mining.
Post: Question about sentence mining.

Thank you all for the excellent advice. I think I'm going to stick with the original plan, as Stansfield123 pointed out, and keep focused on the basics of literacy for now. After that I'll probabl...
sketchyfish The Japanese language 8 2,129 2014-02-08, 2:29 am
    Thread: Question about sentence mining.
Post: Question about sentence mining.

I'm currently going through RTK1, and a friend told me that it would be a good idea to flip (lazily) through Genki 1 along with it... which is a good idea, since it doesn't take me very long to do my ...
sketchyfish The Japanese language 8 2,129 2014-02-07, 8:35 am
    Thread: Beginner question about readings
Post: Beginner question about readings

My question is when I have finished the the book, how do I begin to acquire the associated readings? Many say that you're supposed to read up on grammar, and start finding the readings of each kanji "...
sketchyfish The Japanese language 5 1,337 2014-02-05, 3:37 am
    Thread: Beginner question about readings
Post: Beginner question about readings

I've decided that I will wait until after RTKLite to learn the readings, but I was wondering how one would actually go about the process of acquiring vocabulary from native sources (which I assume is ...
sketchyfish The Japanese language 5 1,337 2014-02-05, 1:27 am
    Thread: My path to literacy (requesting constructive criticism)
Post: My path to literacy (requesting constructive criti...

Thank you all! With a little minor digging (sticky posts are your friend) I've found a very interesting compendium of methods people have used/are using to teach themselves the language: http://forum...
sketchyfish The Japanese language 23 4,786 2014-02-04, 5:28 am
    Thread: My path to literacy (requesting constructive criticism)
Post: My path to literacy (requesting constructive criti...

Quote:This isn't so much directed at you specifically Tell us how you really feel. I hear what you're saying, but to me the first part of your response sounded more like a subconscious manifestation ...
sketchyfish The Japanese language 23 4,786 2014-02-02, 9:12 am
    Thread: My path to literacy (requesting constructive criticism)
Post: My path to literacy (requesting constructive criti...

I do realize there is quite a bit of redundancy in the textbooks, but they could potentially have sentences that I can throw into my SRS. Also with the subs2srs/core6k redundancy thing, the two would...
sketchyfish The Japanese language 23 4,786 2014-02-02, 6:55 am
    Thread: My path to literacy (requesting constructive criticism)
Post: My path to literacy (requesting constructive criti...

These are the steps I'm going to take to achieve literacy and get my listening comprehension up to scratch. The grouping of the list indicates which things I'll attempt to do concurrently (within rea...
sketchyfish The Japanese language 23 4,786 2014-02-02, 4:29 am
    Thread: Very simple question...
Post: Very simple question...

I have been studying Japanese for all of 3 months, whilst trying to keep my unanswered questions at a minimum. I failed, to say the least. So here are a bunch of questions that remain largely unansw...
sketchyfish The Japanese language 5 1,798 2012-10-04, 9:48 am